Billy Bob Thornton at the Egyptian

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The actor Billy Bob Thornton has led one of cinema’s more colorful recent careers (when Angelina Jolie wears a vial of your blood, you’re doing something right), and he tells all in his new book “The Billy Bob Tapes: A Cave Full of Ghosts.” The signing accompanies screenings of two of his landmark movies: his Coen brothers collab “The Man Who Wasn’t There” and “A Simple Plan.” Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., L.A. 6:15 p.m. Fri. americancinematheque.org.